In a new video for The Science Coalition, Johns Hopkins President Ronald J. Daniels emphasized the "critical importance" of continued investment in scientific research and development. "The genius of this country has been its willingness to invest where other countries have not, in basic R&D, and recognizing that that investment will have a whole host of consequences that will improve life in ways we can't possibly imagine." The decline in NIH funding has disproportionately affected America's young scientists, who are exiting the academic biomedical workforce, a brain drain that poses grave risks for the future of science.